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Garden design and landscaping experts to help with plans big or small
When you don’t want a full garden design, just a little bit of help, where do you go? The answer depends on what you want – and when you want it. Want it right now? Sudden Garden Syndrome is the intense impulse to immediately convert that bare balcony/courtyard into something beautiful. Tim Pickles, from Tim’s Garden Centre in Sydney’s Campbelltown, recognises the symptoms. “People get the urge and they don’t want ideas, they want a garden – today!” Whatever you want the garden to be, you don’t have to do it all on your own. Ask around, there’s help available.Credit:iStock Pickles advises sufferers of SGS to use the compass on…
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Wild Ones offers free native garden design plans | News, Sports, Jobs
ESCANABA — As the days get longer and warmer temps turn our thoughts to planting, Wild Ones announces the release of nine professionally designed native garden plans free for the public to use. The designs are specific to different ecoregions of the country, including Minneapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee, Toledo, Chattanooga, Boston, St. Louis, Denver and Tallahassee. The designs can be downloaded from the Wild Ones’ newly launched nativegardendesigns.wildones.org website. Why, you might ask, are native plants and gardens important? That’s a great question. According to Doug Tallamy, author of “Nature’s Best Hope” and an Honorary Director for Wild Ones, one of the biggest mistakes in our approach to conservation…
